I HAVE THIS FRIEND ON FACEBOOK...

...I barely know him actually.  We went to school together and we were both freaks.  We even had the same classes a couple of times.  He failed the grade ahead and they held him back.  We got to experience him.  Anyway, we never hung out.  I grabbed his name or he grabbed mine on facebook recently and we both kind of have our style going and all.  A few weeks ago I gave him props on some of his poetry.  Next thing I know he got me on the chat and asked to hang out with me sometime.  I don't know how I feel about this.  The child in me doesn't care but the adult in me really doesn't want to hang out.  I've made myself isolated over the years.  A self defense mechanism I guess after years of being given that look.  The one where you feel like shit.  Should I hang out with this guy?  Sometimes I think kids have it right and we just get worse and worse as we get older.  Adults like sin.  Something like that.  I've seen some, actually, a lot of his posts.  He doesn't seem like he'd be someone that I'd want to hang out with but then again, people might feel the same way about me.  I'm afraid of living in a a cage and communicating with other humans through these tubes.  But I'm afraid of the outside too.  It's a paradox and I shouldn't let fear rule my decisions.  I'm just sayin', some people on facebook, I'm cool with just knowing them through the internut.  I guess I'm getting old.